Brianne and Liam's school adventures

 My plans for Liam this year are:

History Group and reading lots of picture books based on the time period

He will give presentations this year. 

Science experiments.  I've read a few articles on the importance of kids just discovering and observing things in life.  One particular study took two groups of Kindergartners.  One group completed worksheets for learning ABC's and 123's...math, reading and such.  The other group only did science experiments and read books.  At the end of the year the science kids were far ahead of their peers in the other group.

On Thursdays he will attend "Little's School" at the Mattson's.  

We will have a letter of the week and do activities based on it (they will also coincide with our history themes.)  plus, Jared and Clarissa will lead them through many science experiments too.

We will also use Easy Peasy all online homeschool, for art class.

I will also  introduce sight words with Liam, but not phonics, not just yet.

I have a check list for math concepts that are best learned my manipulations--not worksheets.  I will use this as a guide for his math. 

 Here at home we are learning about Magnets and Electricity.  Liam had fun going around the house finding things that would be attracted to the magnet.  He also discovered the north and south poles of magnets through his wooden train set.  He was thrilled and told Daddy how the magnets on the trains would repel each other on some of the train cars.  He was quite fascinated by this.

 Brianne will be attending story time at the library.  She loves music and dancing.  Using her EDCE waiver, we will have Sis Zander come and spend time with her working on learning goals that we have established.  Namely, we are using checklist of social, fine motor, & gross motor skills for 2 - 3 year olds.  Right now we are working on shapes.

Here's Marshall, Liam and Amber matching capital letters with lower case letters.